Top 300 Dale Carnegie Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “We move toward what we picture in our minds.”

— Dale Carnegie

252. “Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes.”

— Dale Carnegie

253. “If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.”

— Dale Carnegie

254. “The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.”

— Dale Carnegie

255. “I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious – because the obvious is what people need to be told.”

— Dale Carnegie

256. “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.”

— Dale Carnegie

257. “In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.”

— Dale Carnegie

258. “If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism – no matter how certain we are that it is justified.”

— Dale Carnegie

259. “An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide – it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.”

— Dale Carnegie

260. “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”

— Dale Carnegie

261. “Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

— Dale Carnegie

262. “Monotony reveals our limitations.”

— Dale Carnegie

263. “The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.”

— Dale Carnegie

264. “Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.”

— Dale Carnegie

265. “The difference between a grave and a rut are the dimensions.”

— Dale Carnegie

266. “There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one’s errors.”

— Dale Carnegie

267. “Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.”

— Dale Carnegie

268. “Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I’ll tell you their philosophy of life.”

— Dale Carnegie

269. “In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.”

— Dale Carnegie

270. “The words “Think and Thank” are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: “Think and Thank”. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.”

— Dale Carnegie

271. “This is a hurried age we’re living in. If you’ve got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.”

— Dale Carnegie

272. “The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.”

— Dale Carnegie

273. “Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.”

— Dale Carnegie

274. “By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.”

— Dale Carnegie

275. “Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you’ve paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.”

— Dale Carnegie

276. “So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.”

— Dale Carnegie

277. “I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can’t you say the same thing about your life?”

— Dale Carnegie

278. “Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.”

— Dale Carnegie

279. “If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.”

— Dale Carnegie

280. “Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.”

— Dale Carnegie

281. “Develop success from failures.”

— Dale Carnegie

282. “There is a reason why the other person thinks and acts as they do. Ferret out that reason – and you have the key to their actions, perhaps to their personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.”

— Dale Carnegie

283. “Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.”

— Dale Carnegie

284. “When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.”

— Dale Carnegie

285. “A boil on a man’s neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India.”

— Dale Carnegie

286. “The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.”

— Dale Carnegie

287. “How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.”

— Dale Carnegie

288. “When you’re afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.”

— Dale Carnegie

289. “Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.”

— Dale Carnegie

290. “One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.”

— Dale Carnegie

291. “If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!”

— Dale Carnegie

292. “People say I’m cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future’s going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?”

— Dale Carnegie

293. “I wasn’t interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.”

— Dale Carnegie

294. “Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas’s, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.”

— Dale Carnegie

295. “What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!”

— Dale Carnegie

296. “Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.”

— Dale Carnegie

297. “The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates.”

— Dale Carnegie

298. “We can’t win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.”

— Dale Carnegie

299. “By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.”

— Dale Carnegie

300. “All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.”

— Dale Carnegie